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unusual facts about Alonso Pérez de Guzmán


Luis Vélez de Guevara

The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into "The King weighs more than blood (kinship)" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa.


The Ancient Art of War at Sea

The player faces one of five historic opponents, each of which employs a different strategy against the player: the Duke of Medina Sidonia (1588); Blackbeard (1718); John Paul Jones (1779); Horatio Nelson (1805); and a fictitious opponent Thor Foote.


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